A short (and easily adaptable) scheme of Alfred Noyes’ The Highwayman. Featuring lessons on plot, context, technique, structure and writing a response. The unit has some differentiated lessons and resources, as well as suggestions for additional activities and tasks. Developed for mid-ability year 9 but taught at year 7 through to year 10 for different abilities.

This can be used for just a class or a whole school! Hide the images of famous actors who have played a Shakespearean character around the school. There are 3 different quizzes that can be used to help students engage with the actors and the plays, from a simple 'Where is each picture hidden?' location quiz to a more thought-provoking quiz on well-known films the actors have been in to engage student interest! Great for a competition between groups!

Three activities on witch hunting that can easily be extended or developed. A short cloze exercise, a handwriting task (that also allows for students to select pertinent information), and two sources that can be explored - Matthew Hopkins' book and a Salem lithograph produced late in 1892. Notes included.

Some worksheets and activities to help distinguish between Catholics and Protestants following the reformation. It would work for KS3 or GCSE (Elizabethan's unit). There is a cloze exercise, a venn diagram activity, a quiz, a short comprehension task and a word search. This section focuses on the changes at the start of Queen Elizabeth's reign but references the reformation. Some of the activities are differentiated to account for SEN students or those who need challenging. Basic teacher notes included. Everything is in one powerpoint for ease and can be easily added to and adapted. Thanks :)

Students read the information (sourced from BBC) and answer the questions. Some of the questions involve selecting information from the source. Some of the questions require students to apply their knowledge and consider primary sources. Marked out of 20. Allow 40minutes - 1hr to emanate the exam experience.

A short scheme of work on Indonesia. Targeted at low ability (SEN) year 7 but easily adapted (with some differentiation worksheet options included and suggestions offered). It could work well for primary students as well as KS3. This covered about 10 lessons and was easily extended by using additional tasks - again, some suggested. The unit explores the basic physical geography of Indonesia and looks at tectonic plates leading to a bit of research on the 2004 tsunami. The created some lovely work from this that resulted in a colourful display. The students also read Running Wild alongside completing this task.

I made this for a SEN sixth form group struggling with poetry. It could be easily adapted and isn’t exactly ‘simple’. They had the chance to research and try writing about the poem (with close textual analysis) as well as completing some activities on structure and form. The activities are included in the powerpoint. Hopefully it will be a good starting point for your own session - enjoy :)

A timeline activity - easily adapted. Suggestions on the sheet for staff to use. Made for a good lesson! I cut them into date with descriptor and students simply put them into order. Differentiated by splitting the dates from the descriptors. They added extra notes on other events and details on all (plenty of space if stuck on A3 sheets). This made a good start point for the Race Relations topics but also a revision task. Hope it helps :)